The Church Renewal Podcast
The Church Renewal Podcast
Latest Episodes
Season 5 Preview 2: Open Hands, Dangerous Leaders ⚠️
Hasn't this idea already led to spiritual abuse? Here is a question most churches do not ask until something has already gone wrong. What happens when a leader enters discernment with the answer already decided? It cer...
Season 5 Preview 1: When A Decision Needs Discernment 🧭
Lots of churches close every year, 15,000 or something crazy like that, which is bananas. Sometimes Jesus has just left the building, and He takes the light with Him. Last season on the Church Renewal podcast, we looked at how anxi...
The Next Chapter: Where Our Stories Go From Here
Start here if you’ve ever wondered why church renewal efforts stall even when the plan looks solid. We trace a quieter, deeper path: personal differentiation rooted in rest in Christ, and how that inner work can transform the emotional climate ...
From Anxiety To Assurance
We trace the journey from anxious reactivity to settled assurance by rooting leadership and congregational life in the Father’s love. Through gospel clarity, lament, and emotionally mature practices, we show how calm spreads through leaders who...
When Systems Push Back
Change rarely fails because the plan is bad; it fails because anxious systems push back. We dive into the emotional mechanics of resistance—sabotage, cutoff, and the way fear shrinks a congregation’s imagination—and we explore how a well-differ...